Act on this, mostly signal

Keep Claude Code working style out of the handoff doc

What to do

Move working style into skills, checklists and hooks so fresh sessions keep it.

Why

A Reddit guide reports style persists this way, and it flags an AGENTS.md versus CLAUDE.md loading gotcha in v2.1.277 and later. The author wrote the linked article.

Read the source at reddit.com

What the research found

Reddit post with a practical guide to making Claude Code working style persist across fresh sessions via skills, checklists, hooks and examples, plus an AGENTS.md versus CLAUDE.md loading gotcha in v2.1.277 and later. Author discloses they wrote the linked article.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Claude Code v2.1.277 or later reads AGENTS.md only when no CLAUDE.md, .claude/CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md exists 97%
Skill bodies are re-injected after compaction but large ones get truncated from the end 98%
A SessionStart hook with the compact matcher can re-add a decision log after every compaction 98%
A fresh session probe asking whether to drop the free tier tests whether behaviour transferred 96%

Evidence

reddit.com https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xdcz9h/fresh_claude_code_session_knows_the_facts_but

Actionability rated medium.